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Your Internet Shopping Sprees Are Driving an Astonishing Building Boom
• Wired.comJust how much space will they need as e-commerce demand surges in the coming years? A lot.
Retailers online and offline will need a combined 25 million square meters in additional space over the next five years to store and handle the stuff they sell, according to a report from real estate research firm Jones Lang LaSalle. That’s nearly 6,200 acres, or more than seven Central Parks. And that’s just in Europe.